Privacy Groups: Ring’s Police Partnerships Can Lead to Sinister Ends https://threatpost.com/privacy-groups-ring-police-partnerships/149030/
Amazon Workers May Be Watching Your Cloud Cam Home Footage https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-10/is-amazon-watching-you-cloud-cam-footage-reviewed-by-humans
‘Alexa, are you invading my privacy?’ – the dark side of our voice assistants https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/09/alexa-are-you-invading-my-privacy-the-dark-side-of-our-voice-assistants
36 Civil Rights Groups Demand End to Amazon’s Partnerships with Police https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne8q3w/36-civil-rights-groups-demand-end-to-amazons-partnerships-with-police
Amazon and Apple are quietly building networks that know the location of everything https://www.wired.co.uk/article/amazon-sidewalk-apple-u1-networks
Amazon may soon be able to track your phone’s location even if you don’t use any of its products or services https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-may-soon-be-able-to-track-your-phone-location-2019-9
Amazon’s new eero mesh Wi-Fi system collects your data and you shouldn’t buy it https://betanews.com/2019/09/25/amazon-eero-mesh-wifi/
Jeff Bezos says Amazon is writing its own facial recognition laws to pitch to lawmakers https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/9/25/20884427/jeff-bezos-amazon-facial-recognition-draft-legislation-regulation-rekognition
Amazon’s Ring wanted to use 911 calls to activate its video doorbells https://www.cnet.com/news/amazons-ring-wanted-to-use-911-calls-to-activate-its-video-doorbells/
Algorithms Are People https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/09/is-amazons-search-algorithm-biased-its-hard-to-prove/598264/
We Know Tech Companies are Listening In, But Does It Matter? https://www.reviews.com/blog/tech-companies-listening-in/
Senator pushes Amazon for details about Ring “partnerships” with police https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/senator-pushes-amazon-for-details-about-ring-partnerships-with-police/
Amazon tests Whole Foods payment system that uses hands as ID https://nypost.com/2019/09/03/amazon-testing-payment-system-that-uses-hands-as-id/
The Plan to Use Fitbit Data to Stop Mass Shootings Is One of the Scariest Proposals Yet https://gizmodo.com/the-plan-to-use-fitbit-data-to-stop-mass-shootings-is-o-1837710691
Cities Asked Ring to Share ‘Registry Lists’ of Customers Who Bought Surveillance Cameras https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjxvj/cities-asked-ring-to-share-registry-lists-of-customers-who-bought-surveillance-cameras